New Type of Vessel Creates Much Interest
A novel motor cargo ship named Siam, built by East Asiatic Company, will load flour at Puget Sound ports for the Orient. The design omits boilers and stokers, relies on gasoline or crude oil ignition, and carries fuel for a 30,000 mile cruising range. Engines are two eight cylinder units with advanced combustion and electric starters, promising greater carrying capacity and lower payrolls.
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Cook Inlet Country Promises Vast Open Farming Lands
John C. Davidson of Seldovia Alaska speaks in Seattle about Cook Inlet as the world’s greatest undeveloped farming region. He plans cattle raising at Kachenack Bay and to begin farming in spring while others move in from Yakima Valley. Davidson notes seven foot grasses and open grazing year round except March April, with historic nonevent bowhead whaling wealth cited from a prior Fox steamer mission.
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Gladys Hiler Wins Alimony From Thurman Hiler
Mrs Gladys Hiler wins alimony in a suit against Thurman G Hiler of Hamilton Ohio alleging cruelty neglect and lack of support The testimony described abuse in the back yard between the barn and kitchen porch and the court decision grants maintenance in favor of the wife according to the Journal.
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Divided Cunien Hurts Harold Rumor Circulation
Walter Harwood faces social backlash as rumors spread in his class after a letter from Harold. Eighteen girls read it and think him a dear while nineteen call him a dub. Washington Job Printing at Pioneer office.
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Break-up of Iditarod River Triggers Severe Inundation
Ice break-up on the Iditarod river caused the highest flood in local history. The rapid rise submerged warehouses, homes, and businesses along the riverfront, injuring crops and poultry losses. Crowley & Porter and the Northern Commercial Company suffered heavy damage as wood and merchandise floated away and docks endured major strain. A resident was rescued by a neighbor when his cabin flooded.
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Public Hearing On New City Fire Pump Plan
The city council fire committee led by Henry O Roden John C Curin and Joseph H Smith proposes replacing the steam plant with a 25 horsepower gasoline engine pump at about 2300 dollars. A public hearing is urged for Wednesday evening to gather citizen input especially from experienced users of gasoline equipment.
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Wallace Returns to Flat City After Two Years Abroad
Wallace, famed restaurant impresario of the broad white Northland, comes back to Flat City early this week after a roughly two year absence spent in the Ophir and Ruby diggings where he ran a chain of cafeterias that have since closed.
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Knute Koland To Repair Highways For Area
Knute Koland the well known freighter will dedicate time to repairing highways between the city and creek towns. He will temporarily suspend his freighting schedule while working on the road project. The remark about tango dance and headache adds a humorous aside from contemporaries.
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Knute Koland
That Boy Henderson Is One Great Hunter
Henderson, master of the Pup, once earned livelhood supplying Fairbanks with wild game. He knew migratory birds well and recounted a tale of a night boat frozen in with open water nearby. One morning, Ray spotted a mallard circling, set out water on the ice, and decapitated the duck with his rifle.
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Penny Hoard Funds Liquidate $15 Debt in Seattle
John Capulica, a Third Avenue restaurant cook, paid a longtime $15 debt to Louis Vugrich by delivering a sack of pennies. Vugrich had been collecting pennies from newsboys for months. Detective Kent counted 1498 pennies. Capulica warned to drop the matter.
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King rule predicted by French author on American conquest
March 10 report cites French authority Commandant Haillot arguing the United States, driven by conquest zeal, could drift toward monarchy. He cites Theodore Roosevelt, expansion in the Americas, and a growing military that may surpass hundred thousand men and eighty dreadnoughts, amid looming war budgets and imperial reach. Meats ad.
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Murphy sells controlling Cubs stake for over a million
Chicago April 22 Charles W Murphy says he started baseball on a shoestring and now is worth more than 1 000 000 after selling 53 percent of the Chicago National League club to Charles P Taft. He values the Cubs at over a million and plans to retire from management while remaining income from ballpark ground leases.
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Deputy District Attorney Investigates Fort Yukon Move
Yukon deputy Bion A. Dodge travels to Fort Yukon to assist Commissioner Burke in legal matters concerning Indian rights and alleged encroachments by white men. Officials provide few details amid speculation about a “mysterious mission” and uncertain return timing.
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Death of Andrew Peterson Shocks Son in Bellingham
Andrew Peterson died on the Sun inst in Bellingham Washington. His son, Ramp Peterson aged 22 years, had lived in Bellingham for twenty years. Ramp had recently received a letter from his father stating he was in good health before the sudden death.
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Dissolution Suit Published In Alaska District Court
Fred Labelle files for divorce from Mary Labelle in Alaska Territory Fourth Division. Judgment summons by publication in Iditarod Pioneer with six weeks of notice. Defendant must answer within thirty days after June 6 1914, or plaintiff seeks decree dissolving matrimony. Judge Frederick E Sulter presides. Angus McBride clerk.
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